Where can I go that would give me the same level of satisfaction as an actor?

As time went on, I did campaign to lighten the character a little bit, to introduce some romance into the episodes, outside activities, horse riding and fencing and mountaineering.

The people who could do most to improve the situation of so many women and children are in fact, men.

Violence is never ever a choice that a man should make.

I wouldn't know a space-time continuum or warp core breach if they got into bed with me.

I wasn't campaigning for a role in a Hollywood television series, it was a fluke. So you've got to have a measure of good luck, you really have, being in the right place at the right time.

Having spent so much of my life with Shakespeare’s world, passions and ideas in my head and in my mouth, he feels like a friend—someone who just went out of the room to get another bottle of wine.

I would like to see us get this place right first before we have the arrogance to put significantly flawed civilizations out onto other planets, even though they may be utterly uninhabited.

I was brought up in a very poor and very violent household. I spent much of my childhood being afraid.

It is what you do from now on that will either move our civilization forward a few tiny steps, or else... begin to march us steadily backward.

Violence is a choice a man makes and he alone is responsible for it.

The greatest leader is not necessarily the one who does the greatest things. He is the one that gets the people to do the greatest things.

Something stirred within him that was new, dangerous. The question of whether that was wise. ‘Sure.

See, that’s the thing about L.A.— When you’ve mastered the art of feeling lonely in a room full of people, that’s when you know.

A big part of me needed something outside myself to tell me who I was. The thing that had been designed to tell me who I was was gone.

You don't have to think really hard to get the joke. I think humor in general appeals to all people.

I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simplymore voters, but better voters.

We must not allow our emotions to hold sway over our minds. Rather, we must seek to let the truth of God rule our minds. Our emotions must become subservient to the truth.

I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything

Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.

Blasphemous words betray the vain foolishness of the speaker.